Bias Mark

Bias Mark, doing business as Marks Photo, is a sole proprietorship based in Lesage, West Virginia, that provides aerial and ground-based commercial photography services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor, with no federal subcontract work. The vendor operates exclusively under full-and-open competition with no small-business set-aside designations applied to the majority of its recent awards, though several individual BPA calls carry Total Small Business set-asides. Marks Photo competes across 61 awards in the Commercial Photography NAICS category and 32 awards under the Photo/Map/Print/Publication Aerial Photographic PSC code, delivering visual documentation for coastal engineering, beach renourishment, dredging, facility rehabilitation, and infrastructure assessment initiatives.

The Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Jacksonville dominates Marks Photo's customer concentration, accounting for 39 awards with $2.9 million in combined potential value across a 96% coverage threshold. A second tier includes the parent Army Corps of Engineers organization (26 awards, $995 thousand), the Corps' Engineering District Huntington (6 awards), and the General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service (2 awards, $1.5 million in potential value). Representative work includes a $23,685 firm fixed-price BPA call for aerial photographs documenting the Brevard County, Florida Shore Protection Project South Reach Segment across 3.8 miles of coastline, awarded December 2, 2025, with completion by May 31, 2026; a $96,071.52 Total Small Business set-aside for construction photography supporting the Corps' Palm Beach civil works projects, awarded May 22, 2025; and a $48,842 commercial aerial photography order for Jacksonville District support, awarded August 5, 2025.

Marks Photo holds two active BPAs as primary vehicles: a $1 million single-award BPA with the Corps Engineering District Jacksonville running through April 2029 (32 task orders, $799 thousand combined potential value) and a $400,000 single-award BPA through March 2026 (12 task orders, $383 thousand combined potential value). The vendor also maintains a General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule position (GSA contract GS23F0260K) with 11 task orders carrying $131 thousand in potential value. Combined potential value across all 79 prime awards totals $5.5 million, with $1.9 million obligated to date (34% utilization). Activity has remained modest and relatively flat over the past five years—six awards in 2021, declining to three per year in 2022 and 2023, rebounding to six in 2024, and four in 2025—with only one award ($49 thousand) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure in the near term.